LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
Leadership support designed
for real-world impact
Himsel & Associates partners with leaders and organizations to strengthen leadership, navigate change, and improve performance. Explore the services below to find the support that best fits your goals.
Overview
Debbie’s coaching is a practical, results-focused partnership designed to help leaders build on what is already working, address what may be limiting their effectiveness, and translate insight into measurable action. Grounded in candid conversation, assessment and feedback data, and real-world practice, the process identifies the key mindset and behavior shifts needed to improve leadership performance and business outcomes.
Coaching may be especially valuable for:
- Leaders stepping into a new or expanded role
- High-potential leaders preparing for greater responsibility
- Women navigating leadership growth and visibility
- Leaders working through a significant career transition
- Executives seeking to strengthen their influence, communication,
or team leadership - Leaders whose current approach may be limiting their effectiveness
- HR and functional leaders moving into broader business roles
- Teams that would benefit from focused leadership coaching
Common coaching priorities:
- Building readiness for a larger role
- Shifting behaviors that may be limiting effectiveness
- Strengthening leadership presence and influence
- Navigating transition and onboarding
- Improving communication and team leadership
- Increasing accountability and follow-through
- Clarifying leadership style, direction, and priorities
What coaching may include:
- 360-degree feedback surveys
- Stakeholder interviews
- Leadership assessments such as Hogan, MBTI, and FIRO-B
- Identification of one or two high-impact development priorities
- A focused coaching and action plan
- Stakeholder involvement when appropriate
- Practice applying new behaviors to real situations
- Candid feedback and ongoing adjustments
- Accountability for measurable progress
Potential outcomes:
- Greater self-awareness
- Stronger leadership presence and influence
- Greater followership
- More effective communication
- Improved team relationships and accountability
- Increased readiness for a new or expanded role
- More sustainable leadership habits
- Clearer alignment between leadership behavior and business goals
- Increased business goals
Overview
Debbie designs highly customized leadership development experiences that connect organizational strategy with the capabilities leaders need for the future. Grounded in a thorough needs assessment and close partnership with senior leaders, each program combines practical learning, real-world application, and multiple development methods to create meaningful change that extends beyond the classroom.
Leadership development programs may be especially valuable for:
- Organizations preparing leaders for future growth
- High-potential and emerging leader populations
- Senior leaders navigating complexity and change
- Global or multicultural leadership teams
- Organizations seeking stronger alignment between leadership
behavior and business strategy - Leadership transition and/or organization culture evolution
- Companies developing a stronger internal leadership pipeline
- Teams that need a shared leadership language or approach
Program focus areas include:
- High-potential leader development
- Leading through complexity and uncertainty
- Global leadership and mindset
- Strategic leadership capabilities
- Leadership transitions and readiness
- Team effectiveness and collaboration
- Developing leaders who develop others
- Organizational culture and behavior change
- Building future-ready leadership pipelines
What programs may include:
- Organizational and leadership needs assessment
- Custom program design
- Individual and team assessments
- 360-degree feedback
- Simulations and experiential learning
- Action-learning projects tied to real business priorities
- Individual and group coaching
- Learning labs and facilitated dialogue
- Senior-leader involvement
- Global or cross-cultural learning experiences
- Program evaluation and refinement
Potential outcomes:
- Stronger alignment between leadership development and organizational strategy
- Greater readiness for future roles and responsibilities
- Improved ability to lead through complexity and change
- Stronger collaboration across teams and functions
- Increased ownership from senior leaders and the organization
- Greater transfer of learning into day-to-day leadership behavior
- A more sustainable pipeline of capable leaders
Overview
Debbie partners with organizations to solve complex leadership, talent, team, and culture challenges with practical solutions built for the realities of the business. Drawing on extensive experience as both an internal organization development leader and an external advisor, she helps clients move from diagnosis and strategy through implementation, creating the clarity, alignment, and systems needed to improve performance.
Organizational consulting programs may be especially valuable for:
- Organizations navigating significant change or growth
- Senior teams experiencing role confusion or misalignment
- HR leaders strengthening talent and leadership systems
- Organizations building or refining competency models
- Companies redesigning talent review or succession processes
- Newly formed or restructured leadership teams
- Organizations seeking stronger collaboration across functions
- Leaders who need support translating strategy into practical action
Consulting focus areas include:
- C-Suite team effectiveness
- Change management
- Talent management strategy and implementation
- Talent reviews and succession planning
- Competency modeling
- Leadership model development
- Curriculum and development architecture
- Team effectiveness and alignment
- New-team formation and integration
- Role clarity and decision-making
- Organization design and operating effectiveness
What an engagement may include:
- Stakeholder interviews and organizational assessment
- Team or leadership diagnostics
- Review of existing talent and development processes
- Facilitation with senior leaders and teams
- Custom frameworks, tools, and recommendations
- Talent review or succession-process design
- Competency and leadership-model development
- Team charters, role clarification, and operating agreements
- Implementation planning
- Ongoing advisory support and refinement
Potential outcomes:
- Greater alignment among senior leaders
- Clearer goals, roles, and decision-making
- Stronger talent and succession processes
- Improved team effectiveness and collaboration
- Better integration following organizational change
- More consistent leadership expectations
- Increased accountability and follow-through
- Practical systems that support long-term performance
Overview
Debbie delivers engaging, customized keynotes and workshops that connect leadership insight with practical action. Drawing on decades of real-world executive, organizational, and coaching experience, she adapts each presentation to the audience, business context, and goals—creating sessions that are thought-provoking, energetic, and immediately relevant.
Speaking engagements may be especially valuable for:
- Leadership conferences and executive gatherings
- Women’s leadership programs
- Sales meetings and organizational kickoffs
- Companies navigating change or transformation
- High-potential and emerging-leader events
- HR, talent, and organizational-development audiences
- Teams seeking a shared leadership message
- Organizations looking for practical, research-informed
content delivered with energy
Speaking topics:
- Leadership effectiveness and common leadership traps
- Career derailers and how to manage them
- Women’s Leadership Challenges (i.e., Self-promoting with
Integrity, Courage to Lead, etc.) - Leadership style and executive impact
- Leading through organizational change
- Culture and transformation
- Career growth, visibility, and advocacy
- Global leadership and organizational complexity
- Talent, team, and leadership challenges
- Lessons drawn from Leadership Sopranos Style and
Beauty Queen
What an engagement may include:
- A keynote tailored to the audience and event goals
- Executive or conference presentations
- Interactive workshops
- Leadership-style or self-reflection exercises
- Real-world case studies and organizational examples
- Practical tools and takeaways
- Facilitated discussion and audience participation
- Customized themes aligned with company initiatives
- Follow-up materials or extended learning sessions
Potential outcomes:
- Greater awareness of leadership strengths and risks
- Practical strategies leaders can apply immediately
- Stronger understanding of leadership style and impact
- Increased confidence navigating change and complexity
- More thoughtful discussion about culture and leadership
- Renewed energy around organizational priorities
- A memorable shared experience that inspires action
Not sure what you need?
Every engagement is tailored to the organization, leader, and challenge. If you don’t see exactly what you’re looking for, Debbie would be happy to talk through your goals and determine the best path forward.